Definition

Funds Management account assignment (FM account assignment) intended for budget postings in the Budget Control System. The budget address is an element of the budget structure.

Use

Using budget addresses, you define the account assignments intended for budgeting or budget consumption from the entirety of FM account assignments defined for an FM area. This enables you to map the distribution of funds for budget planning and budget execution according to the organizational role of these areas. Budget addresses should be regarded as additional FM master data, in addition to FM account assignment elements of Funds Management.

Budget addresses are managed per FM area/fiscal year for each budget category and budget structure ID. Since the budget structure is year-dependent, the budget addresses it contains are also year-dependent. Budget addresses can be copied to the following fiscal year by using the Copy Program .

With each budget posting for an FM area/fiscal year, the system checks whether the corresponding FM account assignment specified is defined as postable. You can activate/deactivate the budget address check for exceptional situations in Customizing by setting/removing the indicator Budget Address Check . Note that it is not advisable to deactivate this check if you work with budget addresses.

You activate or deactivate the budget address check in the menu of Funds Management, under  Budgeting Budget Control System (BCS) Version Assign Status to a Version.

See also:

For information on defining budget addresses, see Defining Budget and Posting Addresses .